Senator Grace Poe says she will file a bill which will prohibit buying and selling of votes through electronic means, like Gcash and Maya
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In an emotional privilege speech, Poe said that apart from moving on from what happened in the 2004 elections, there was still a great need to “apply remedies that will prevent it from happening again, of lessons so powerful that it deters repetition, by sanctions that await those who try to commit it once more.”
Poe’s speech was about the 2004 wiretap scandal where disgraced poll commissioner Virgilio Garcillano could be overheard taking orders from a woman who sounded like then president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Their conversation was about the canvassing of the 2004 election results. “Campaigning should effectively start as soon as candidacy is filed, and vote-buying should include all possible modes like the buying of votes through e-wallets which we saw in 2022,” Poe said.
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